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Neuronal responses in the ventral striatum of the behaving macaque

WILLIAMS, G, ROLLS, E, LEONARD, C, STERN, C·1993·Behavioural Brain Research

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To analyse the functioning of the ventral striatum, the responses of more than 1,000 single neurons were recorded in a region which included the nucleus accumbens and olfactory tubercle in 5 macaque monkeys. While the monkeys performed visual discrimination and related feeding tasks, the different populations of neurons found included neurons which responded to novel visual stimuli; to reinforcement-related visual stimuli such as (for different neurons) food-related stimuli, aversive stimuli, or faces; to other visual stimuli; in relation to somatosensory stimulation and movement; or to cues which signalled the start of a task. The neurons with responses to reinforcing or novel visual stimuli may reflect the inputs to the ventral striatum from the amygdala and hippocampus, and are consistent with the hypothesis that the ventral striatum provides a route for learned reinforcing and novel visual stimuli to influence behaviour.

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  • The OFC projects reward-related information to the ventral striatum, providing a route, in part via the habenula, for reward-related information to reach dopamine neurons, which respond to positive reward prediction error.

    “The OFC projects reward-related information to the ventral striatum (Williams et al., 1993), and this provides a route, in part via the habenula, for reward-related information to reach the dopamine neurons (Rolls, 2017), which respond inter alia to positive reward prediction error (Bromberg-Martin et al., 2010; Schultz, 2016a, 2017).”

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Authors
WILLIAMS, G., ROLLS, E., LEONARD, C., & STERN, C.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
ROLLS, E
Venue
Behavioural Brain Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1993-06-30
Volume
55
Issue
2
Pages
243-252
ISSN
0166-4328 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2076667799
Cited by
146
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
FWCI
1.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Behavioural Brain Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle, single-unit recording, macaque, visual discrimination, feeding behaviour, reinforcement, aversive stimuli, somatosensory stimulation, movement, task cues
MeSH terms
Amygdala, Animals, Appetitive Behavior, Association Learning, Attention, Brain Mapping, Corpus Striatum, Discrimination Learning, Dopamine, Emotions, Hippocampus, Macaca fascicularis, Male, Motivation, Neural Pathways, Synaptic Transmission, Neurons, Nucleus Accumbens, Olfactory Bulb, Mental Recall, Temporal Lobe, Visual Perception

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